In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 4 new rules and made modifications to 11 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
file-office and spyware-put rule sets to provide coverage for emerging
threats from these technologies.

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 47 new rules and made modifications to 581 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

In this rule release many rules were moved from their old categories to new categories as listed in this blog post. Rules are going to be continually moving throughout the next few months, so please pay attention to the blog to make sure you don't miss anything!

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 5 new rules and made modifications to 11 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories and includes
detection for a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Samba.

Details:
Samba Remote Code Execution (CVE-2012-1182):
The RPC code generator in certain versions of Samba does not correctly
validate an array length. This error may allow remote attackers to
execute code on an affected system.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 21806.

Additionally, the Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules
in the exploit, file-identify, file-office, indicator-compromise and
web-client rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 78 new rules and made modifications to 301 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
The Sourcefire VRT is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from
Microsoft Corporation.

Details:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-023:
Microsoft Internet Explorer suffers from programming errors that may
allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 21793 and 21796.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-024:
The Microsoft Windows Authenticode verification system contains a
programming error that may allow a remote attacker to include
executable code in an application while keeping the digital signature
intact.
A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 21795.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-025:
The Microsoft .NET Framework incorrectly validates some parameters used
in processing image data. This may allow a remote attacker to execute
code on an affected system.
A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 21792.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-027:
The Microsoft Windows Common Controls ActiveX DLL (MSCOMCTL) contains
programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on
an affected system.
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 21797 through 21801.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-028:
The Microsoft Office WPS converter contains a programming error that
may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.
A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 21794.

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 30 new rules and made modifications to 169 additional rules.

The following changes made to the snort.conf in this release, these can be added to the bottom of the snort.conf where the rule declarations are made:

include $RULE_PATH/file-office.rules
include $RULE_PATH/file-other.rules
include $RULE_PATH/file-pdf.rules
include $RULE_PATH/indicator-compromise.rules
include $RULE_PATH/indicator-obfuscation.rules
include $RULE_PATH/policy-multimedia.rules
include $RULE_PATH/policy-other.rules
include $RULE_PATH/policy-social.rules
include $RULE_PATH/pua-p2p.rules
include $RULE_PATH/pua-toolbars.rules
include $RULE_PATH/server-mail.rules

In VRT's rule release:

Synopsis:
This release introduces eleven new rule categories and contains new and
modified rules in several categories.

In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!